#the surgeon's mate

[hey-scully-itsme]

#do you see?? do you understand??? #in order: #hms surprise #(first two) #the surgeon's mate #the commodore #blue at the mizzen #aubreyad #aubreyad spoilers #(is that a tag anyone blocks? idk) #stephen maturin #diana villiers #brigid maturin #forgive me if i missed any stephen/diana reunion moments. i was trying to only pick the ones where she runs to meet him #also a few paragraphs after that moment with brigid stephen spots a peregrine falcon - a bird he associated with diana in the past

[dukeofriven]

Among the young men in the nunnery cheerfulness returned with the sun that shone on Brest from a clear calm sky within twenty-four hours of their miserable journey from Trégonnec, and with it their naval sense of fun. The commissary charged with drawing up a correct official list, which included among other things their grandmothers' maiden names, dates and places of birth, received some strange answers, delivered in sober, lugubrious tones, so strange that the port-admiral summoned Captain Aubrey. 'I refuse to believe, sir,' he said, 'that all your officers but one are descended from Queen Anne.'    'I am sorry to tell you, sir, that Queen Anne is dead,' said Jack. 'Common decency, therefore, forbids me to make any comment.' 'It is my opinion,' said the Admiral, 'that they have replied with a culpable levity. Such parents as the Emperor of Morocco, Creeping Jenny, Guy of Warwick, Sir Julius Caesar . . . You may say that the commissary is only a mere civilian, which is profoundly true; but even so I must ask you to invite them to treat him with a proper respect. He is a servant of the Emperor!'    Jack did not seem very deeply impressed and in fact the Admiral's voice lacked full conviction. He looked at his captive for a moment and went on, 'But now I come to a far more serious matter. One of your Marines, Ludwig Himmelfahrt, has escaped.'

#jack aubrey #the surgeon's mate #patrick o'brian #Master and Commander #aubreyad #aubrey-maturin #queen anne #if it doesn't seem screamingly fully when written down #i assure it's howlingly good when heard in the voice of patrick tull

[thekenobee]

That letter from Miss Smith

I'm so stressed out I CANNAE continue reading OH GOOOD

Alexa, play congratulations

#jack aubrey #YOU HAVE INVENTED A NEW KIND OF STUPID #damage you can Never undo #kind of stupid #an -open all the cages in the zoo- kind of stupid #i say this lovingly #for i know #that #patrick o'brian #will fix it #looking at the sky #Won't YOU SIR #the surgeon's mate #AUBREYAD #im so terribly invested ARGHHHH #Aubrey Maturin #debs reads #well more like STRUGGLES TO READ😂

[quatregats]

Patrick O'Brian was so real for this one <3

#aubreyad #i do appreciate the way that he treats other languages #like he doesn't often toss in random words but he does subtly change the rhythm #the conversation in the surgeon's mate in catalan is very clearly a different register #especially for stephen #but it's all written out in english except for stephen calling his godfather padrí and his godfather calling him esteve #anyways reading forester i now am realizing how low the bar is here #obv it's not very easy to do this but when someone does it....<333 #(i've spent a lot of time thinking about how to represent multilingualism in monoglot writing lol) #perce rambles #will say: the obvious caveat to this is stephen forgetting how to say bolets in english. which mr. pob was also incredibly real for <33

[gigamuffinsofie]

im just gonna quietly drop a link to all the aubreyad radio shows because some of you had no idea they existed

#there is no post captain. i dont know why either dont ask #and also fortune of war is also surgeon's mate dont ask i dont know #and also also master and commander is completely different for some reason. different cast different music?? dont ask i dont know #i always skip that one. and final warning you will hear sex im sorry #its as embarrassing to listen to as you think it is if not more

[firstofficerrose]

Stephen and Diana legit got married? For real? What? What are they gonna do for soap opera shenanigans now???

#stephen maturin #diana viliers #diana maturin #<what the heck??? it happened? #i thought they were going to take the whole series about it! #aubreyad #rose reads #the surgeons mate

[theaceace]

right so because actual writing doesn’t seem to be happening any time soon does anyone want the outline of a fantasy age of sail Dreamling fic, psyche I’m going to tell you all anyway

The general worldbuilding premise is that the Dreaming (a very fine clipper that can outpace the hordes of hell itself, so they say) is on the tail of a star that is, according to Lucienne's star charts (yes I know that's not how they work but she also has ones for navigation) due to fall. Lucienne is the Quartermaster (using pirate rankings, rather than merchant or naval), making her the second in command, skilled in navigation, and generally a voice of reason to the Captain

Dream and Lucienne know very well that fallen stars fetch a huge amount of money and are pretty magical in their own right, so all of the ships capable of traversing the Sea of Stars will be after it (to get to the Sea of Stars, you need to sail to the edge of the world and catch a storm, which lifts the boat and flips it upside down so its sailing on the sky which is ACTUALLY A SEA BECAUSE I SAID SO, like the boat feelings like it's sailing normally and if you could reach down far enough overboard you'd feel water, but that water is actually the sky and contains stars and if you looked up you'd see the normal ocean above you I don't even know if that makes sense but whatever)

So anyway the ships Threshold and Sunless Lands and Furies and a bunch of others are also going to be after the star

Now the biggest issue is I don’t know if I’d prefer Hob be the figurehead that comes to life and Morpheus the magical captain, or do I have Dream be the captain and figurehead (literally a part of the Dreaming and it’s magic??) with Hob the newest human member of the crew, so HERE’S THE PLOTS FOR THEM BOTH

With Hob as the newest member of the Dreaming and Dream as figurehead, then Hob claims he joined the crew for the sake of his wife and son (Dream is super bummed about this because it means that once Hob is rich he'll leave the Dreaming and also Dream can't smooch him) but during a moment of heightened tension (a battle? A vortex whirlpool?) Dream is trying to protect Hob because hes in love that's what figureheads do, and he's like 'you need to get back to Eleanor and Robyn!' BUT turns out they've been dead the whole time and everyone on the mainland thinks Hob did it, he didn't join the Dreaming to get rich he did it to escape the gallows, and to use the star to buy/wish/whatever himself a new life but he's already found a new life here on the ship!

So they eventually catch up to the star at the same time as the Furies and it's a big ol' battle and the Dreaming is almost destroyed, Dream is basically the only thing holding it together long enough for the Threshold to arrive and start scooping up the crew from the water, but oh no!

Hob has been fatally wounded, so using his Ruby and the last of his magic that had been keeping the ship together (maybe the ruby was left over from a previous fallen star?) He heals Hob, but in doing so is himself turned back into wood and Hob is too weak while healing to grab him and he sinks into the Sea of Stars and it's all terribly tragic except MVP Matthew (a former stowaway, now invaluable crew member who spends most of his time in the raven’s crow’s nest/rigging) totally managed to nab the star in all the chaos and confusion, so the Furies left thinking the star had already fallen (/sunk too deep to retrieve) and Hob uses the star to remake the Dreaming and bring Dream back (and possibly the help of Desire and Death) with the crew's blessing because like fuck would they just sell it after all that

OR

Hob used to be the figurehead of a ship captained by Eleanor and her son Robyn, and he wasn't really conscious or animate yet (that didn't happen until Dream came along) but he still loved them and felt like he'd failed when he could protect them, so when Dream built his ship out of the discarded dreams pieces of other ships that had been wrecked/broken down for parts, he chose Hob as his figurehead and breathed life into him, and oh boy what a life, Hob is going to make the most of it because that's the sort of person he is, and he'd never just give that up!

So, similar to before, off they merrily go to get the star, and Hob is so much more full of life than Dream has ever been and he's teaching Dream to feel joy! There are late night rendezvous! Dream watches Hob experience the wind and rain and sun on his skin for the first time! He's radiant with joy, Matthew is making gagging motions behind their backs!

  But, of course, things go wrong as before, and Dream is catastrophically injured and the Dreaming is falling apart as Dream is dying because he put so much of himself into it, and Hob returns the ruby Dream gave him (he has to literally kiss Dream and slip it over his head because Dream is so insistent that Hob not save him) and Hob goes still with his hand still curved in the shape of Dream's cheek although he was careful to let quickly let go so that there was no chance of him dragging Dream down with him. And I forgot to mention before but for bullshit magic reasons I would think of later, the ruby fizzles out at this point, can't be used again 

And in this one maybe Desire has the star and Dream knows they'll never give it to him except they DO because this is the first time they've seen their brother actually really WANT something for himself and not just for the Dreaming so they give it to him and Dream is going to be in their debt forever but he doesn't CARE. When they get back to the mainland he sets about rebuilding the Dreaming, and it's the first time he's made something from scratch in a REALLY LONG TIME probably for trauma reasons idk, and Hob is the last thing he carves, when everything else is perfect, and finally, FINALLY he uses the whole entire star to bring Hob back, so he's a real boy alive properly and off they all sail happily ever after

#dreamling #fic ideas #not exactly a writing tag #also it didn't fit in there anywhere but it's important to me that the Corinthian is the ship's surgeon #Gault is first mate Gilbert is boatswain Merv is the carpenter and Nuala is the sailmaker

[emotionally-resilient-sniper]

dude those are banger top surgery scars wehree cna i get them

These aren't my- y'know what @emotionallygonemedic got ya an admirer.

#mate #please don't do what i did #ooc: I'd get mine like that too if I could. Maybe I can ask the surgeon to do a little extra slicing and suturing... #ooc: also a fan of trans sniper but Ill keep it up to interpretation for now as far as my portrayal #asks #physicallytiredmedic #sniper tf2

[chicafinal]

they moved on too fast from stephen comically ruining the cricket game in the fortune of war

#in the 21 seasons long aubreyad that exists only in my head the cricket bit is a whole episode. like the baseball ep in ds9 #im reading the surgeon's mate i promise but the fortune of war had too many golden moments

[kigiom]

you're telling me....they DIDN'T kiss on the Surprise?

#honestly like if patrick o'brian did that we'd all be like yeah normal tuesday with jack and stephen #im halfway through surgeon's mate to clarify #anyway #normal im normal about them today #I'll be more coherent at some point #aubreyad #master and commander #jack aubrey #stephen maturin #thomas.text #I'm going to rewrite the whole of HMS Surprise with the only addition that they kiss after Stephen's fever a la that gatsby fic thing

[hey-scully-itsme]

okay so I’m 100% on board with the jokes about how stephen maturin kills a guy with a 'phallic paperweight' because they truly are funny as hell but also I’m fascinated by how the scene actually goes down. Bc he DOESN'T kill the guy with it! he just knocks him out. What he does kill him with is a lancet.

Given that, every other time it comes up, he draws a VERY hard line at using the tools of his trade as a physician to kill, it's actually super relevant to where he's at in that scene and in Fortune of War in general that that's how it goes down. lines are blurring, certainties are being erased, and everything feels out of control. huge fan of how well that scene conveys those ideas.

#the scene imo is very firmly grounded in the pain and disorientation of his changing feelings towards diana #so how i read that scene is that it's pointing towards the pain of apparently falling out of love being like some kind of emotional surgery #stephen has to go through this pain in order to be capable of a somewhat healthier relationship with her in the future #i'm fighting the temptation to add more qualifiers to 'healthier' bc everything with them is a mess all the time. love them <3 #but one of the problems with their early relationship is stephen building a pedestal for her that rivals the fucking tower of babel #and is equally damaging to any real communication between them #like they never quite manage to communicate with each other (diana has to practically hand him a script in the surgeon's mate) #but i think stephen seeing her at a low point for both of them takes off the blinders #and afterward he's able to engage with her a little more as a human and not some capricious goddess of the hunt #these are just general musings not coherent thoughts or i'd make a separate post lol #the fortune of war #the surgeon's mate #also the pocket lancet thing makes me think of seward in dracula which cracks me up

[mycological-mariner]

I’m extremely impressed by the postman. The mail a lot is really tricky and hates being opened, most people just give up halfway through leasing to hundreds of folded letters. But this guy? He took one look at it, took a look at my package (The Surgeon’s Mate) and just went for it. When I came down to collect the mail this guy managed to get the book not just through the slot but 5 feet from the inside of my door.

#how did he DO that??? #and I’ve also ordered the surgeons mate #it’s not at the library! why?! #anyways I can’t stop thinking about how he just LAUNCHED this book halfway across a room! #from the MAIL SLOT #could have just left it behind the potted plant or behind the bin #but nope! #he was so determined! #amazing! #anyways #once I finish flight of the heron I’m starting the surgeons mate #pouring one out for my postman <3 #that’s some King Shit

[creepyjirachi]

big plans for new son????

#outfit is a big wip 🤦‍♂️ #i want him to be a mate for my bogsneak avelia #who is a ‘’healer’’ plague dragon. meaning she’s an unethical surgeon who doesn’t wash her hands #i think in The Lore she gave him her heart <3 literally. surgically. he just has two now #flight rising #fr #body horror

[thekenobee]

Tw: book junkie

#aubreyad #🍻 #aubrey/maturin #aubrey Maturin #books #debs reads #master and commander #age of sail #i love the cover #jack aubrey #Stephen maturin #yesterday I introduced 2 of my friends to Aubreyad and #HOW WE WHEEZED AT #LESSER #OF TWO #WEEVILS #they DIED #surgeon's mate #more like #surgeon's M8 #Patrick O'Brian

[apotelesmaa]

Nobody in the obra dinn tag posting the crabs what is wrong with you people

#nobody clapping for the carpenter or the surgeon or the third mate who are #objectively the best characters in the entire game

[luffyasksandanswers]

It’s Strawhat’s birthday. At least, from what he’d overheard from the Strawhat crew. After all the help Strawhat had been, Law figures he could bring a gift, and yet, a gift could be dangerous. He couldn’t have Strawhat thinking they were friends, and a gift was bound to suggest that. Thus, Law has a better idea. Two gigantic bowls of the spiciest curry in the world has been set up on the table. One bowl has been labelled ‘Strawhat’ and the other ‘Winner’. Law, naturally, steps up to the

Ever since Luffy opened his eyes on May 5th he has been chuckling and smiling and no wonder, it was his birthday and he has been waiting eagerly for the "sign" (when the party starts). Although Luffy tends to be impatient, he really didn't mind that his crew mates took some extra time with the preparations because he knew they'd do their best so all he could do is to sit down and relax.

Law was sailing with them and he was too invited to the banquet by the others (and Luffy obviously assumed he'd join there too whether the surgeon wanted or not). The captain of the Heart Pirates had been mysterious the whole morning but Luffy didn't suspect anything because all he could think of was the upcoming party.

When it was (finally) the time, the rest of the crew gave Law the honor to blindfold Luffy's eyes and asked him to lead their captain to this beautiful and uninhabited island where they had set the tables and other stuff for the evening. The captain could already sense the smell of the food but he had no idea that Law had given a helping hand with one of the dishes.

After hearing the rules of the challenge Luffy got all hyped up. This competition sounded like so much fun for the straw hatted boy and that bowl was indeed big but little did he know that spicy meant spicy. It almost looked like there came steam out of his mouth while the captain kept gobbling (of course not at the same usual superspeed because even for culinarist like him, the curry was pretty hot to handle) while the others were cheering for both of them. When Luffy finally finished the dish, it seemed like Law barely started.

"Man, that was loads of fun and I won. Thanks for the challenge Torao~!" He gave a big pat on his back (maybe a couple of them) and expressed how happy he was with Law's surprise but for him it was barely a starter so he declares excitedly that the party must go on. Yosh! Next up is that bird!" he chuckles and drags Law to see closer that giant turkey Sanji had prepared for the feast.

@pilawforhire

#yosh ! let’s get this started ! (starters) #shishishi! (askbox answers) #grumpy surgeon (Trafalgar Law) #//sorry this took so long #//been missing you and Law mate~! Hope you are doing ok <3